Dharma must be relevant to contemporary living:

«The practice of dharma⁽¹⁾ should be rooted in understanding, reasoning, analysing and logic instead of in faith and rituals. In that sense, there is a difference between religion and dharma…» This is the message of the Dalai Lama to over two thousand Tibetan teenage-students, this morning, on the first day of his 3-day teaching in the Tibetan Children’s Village, situated in a beautiful pine forest, an hour’s-walk above Dharamsala.
In a profound and inspiring message, the Dalai Lama spoke about the history of Buddhism in Tibet, the uniqueness of Tibetan cultural heritage, the need for the ordained and lay people to study philosophy, the interaction between Buddhism and science and his view that dharma must be relevant to contemporary living.
The Tibetan children's Village runs fifteen schools, with over ten thousand Tibetan students, in different parts of India. It offers a stable and safe environment as well as a complete education curriculum, from primary to college levels, to mainly orphans and new refugees from Tibet.

⁽¹⁾ the Buddhist spiritual path.